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Well this is for existing skyscrapers. I left proposals out because until they're built, they don't exist. Besides, it'd be very hard to track all the proposals across 50 different MSAs, and figure out which ones are still on the table.
First off... Excellent job putting this list together! Great food for thought
I just felt a need to say something or add an '*' to the list.
If you were to list buildings at different levels 250 ft, 400ft, 600ft, 700ft, 800ft... etc... the rankings would change each time as the character of building height differs from city to city.
Take Miami and Atlanta. Atlanta has more reeally tall buildings than Miami, but Miami being on the cost and having awesome views has tons of residential hgihrises and condo towers, which are generally shorter than major office buildings, but there are tons of them. Atlanta could never keep up in that respect, whereas Miami will never quite have the class A office market, which tends to build really tall buildings, that Atlanta has.
Another interesting measure would be to take the 10 tallest buildings in each city and add them up to see how tall each respective skyline is. That would give a semi good balance of density and height. I think my hometown of Charlotte punches above its weight in the skyline department.
Another interesting measure would be to take the 10 tallest buildings in each city and add them up to see how tall each respective skyline is. That would give a semi good balance of density and height. I think my hometown of Charlotte punches above its weight in the skyline department.
Maybe interesting. Charlotte's got a nice little skyline, but this is a measure deliberately designed to take advantage of the fact that CLT's pretty much only got 10 buildings of any size... Well, 6 over 500, plus another 7 between 400-500.
But hey. I'll bite.
Charlotte's top 10: 5927 combined feet.
Atlanta's top ten: 7594
Pittsburgh's top 10: 6065
Philly's top 10: 7120
Chicago's top ten: 9685
Chicago's top FIVE: 6110
Now, if we go back to MSAs of similar populations, the numbers are better.
Indy: 4461
Columbus: 4980
And there are many MSAs of similar size with total crap skylines.
Still, I don't know that the underlying message is different by totaling height than by simply relating the number of buildings over a certain height.
First off... Excellent job putting this list together! Great food for thought
I just felt a need to say something or add an '*' to the list.
If you were to list buildings at different levels 250 ft, 400ft, 600ft, 700ft, 800ft... etc... the rankings would change each time as the character of building height differs from city to city.
Take Miami and Atlanta. Atlanta has more reeally tall buildings than Miami, but Miami being on the cost and having awesome views has tons of residential hgihrises and condo towers, which are generally shorter than major office buildings, but there are tons of them. Atlanta could never keep up in that respect, whereas Miami will never quite have the class A office market, which tends to build really tall buildings, that Atlanta has.
Yeah the same for Philadelphia, Los Angeles, etc. every height changes the make up. That is why a firm standard should be used
Emporis lists the number of Hi rise buildings per city as follows
1. New York 5928
2. Chicago 1118
3. Los Angeles 509
4. San Francisco 418
5. Houston 359
6. Philadelphia 329
7. Miami 295
8. Dallas 245
9. Boston 235
10. Atlanta 233
11. Seattle 225
12. Minneapolis 192
13. Detroit 173
Maybe interesting. Charlotte's got a nice little skyline, but this is a measure deliberately designed to take advantage of the fact that CLT's pretty much only got 10 buildings of any size... Well, 6 over 500, plus another 7 between 400-500.
But hey. I'll bite.
Charlotte's top 10: 5927 combined feet.
Atlanta's top ten: 7594
Pittsburgh's top 10: 6065
Philly's top 10: 7120
Chicago's top ten: 9685
Chicago's top FIVE: 6110
Houston's top 5: 4437
Houston's top 10: 8105
Its still pretty close to Chicago in this metric, but in shear numbers on hi rises, Chicago is still waaay ahead
This makes sense on Philly as although there are not many really tall buildings there are a lot of smaller to mid height hi rises and almost all all clustered thus giving a great deal of density, especially at the street level
Maybe interesting. Charlotte's got a nice little skyline, but this is a measure deliberately designed to take advantage of the fact that CLT's pretty much only got 10 buildings of any size... Well, 6 over 500, plus another 7 between 400-500.
But hey. I'll bite.
Charlotte's top 10: 5927 combined feet.
Atlanta's top ten: 7594
Pittsburgh's top 10: 6065
Philly's top 10: 7120
Chicago's top ten: 9685
Chicago's top FIVE: 6110
Now, if we go back to MSAs of similar populations, the numbers are better.
Indy: 4461
Columbus: 4980
And there are many MSAs of similar size with total crap skylines.
Still, I don't know that the underlying message is different by totaling height than by simply relating the number of buildings over a certain height.
What is interesting is that Philly would actually overtake the top height to Atlanta with the ACC
Also am curious how Miami, Houston, SF, LA, and Dallas would do on this metric, or even Boston for that matter
What is interesting is that Philly would actually overtake the top height to Atlanta with the ACC
Also am curious how Miami, Houston, SF, LA, and Dallas would do on this metric, or even Boston for that matter
posted Houstons,
Dallas came up to about 7000 (about 3000 less than ATL)
LA is 6973
Miami comes up to 6666
San Fran is 6525
Last edited by HtownLove; 11-12-2010 at 09:09 AM..
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